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GLUME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glume mean?
• GLUME (noun)
The noun GLUME has 1 sense:
1. small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae
Familiarity information: GLUME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("glume" is a kind of...):
bract (a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glume"):
flowering glume; lemma (the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae)
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